Cost of Neuroimaging
Insurance companies are once again trying to preserve their income by cutting health care. The rising cost of CT and other neuroimaging techniques is prompting insurance companies to look for ways to decrease their use.
There is certainly an argument that doctors have been placed in the unenviable position of having to protect themselves by practicing "defensive medicine." But more compelling is the information neuroimaging provides in saving lives or prescribing proper care.
It is no wonder that diagnostic tests increase as technology increases. Moreover, doctors' ability to see and treat disease increases with the use of neuroimaging technology. Just as the Hubbell telescope allows us to see things in outer space previously unseen and allows us to create theories of Relativity, we are better informed and able to understand that sun does not evolve around earth but earth around sun.
Fortunately health insurance companies do not dispute such theories and facts - but if they could save money doing it I bet they would!
Read the article in today's Newsday.
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